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The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lukas Harsch , Johannes Burgbacher , Stefan Riedelbauch

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) enables a learning machine to adapt from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled domain under the distribution shift. Thanks to the strong representation ability of deep neural networks, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Zhongyi Han , Haoliang Sun , Yilong Yin

Reconstructing soft tissues from stereo endoscope videos is an essential prerequisite for many medical applications. Previous methods struggle to produce high-quality geometry and appearance due to their inadequate representations of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ruyi Zha , Xuelian Cheng , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi , Zongyuan Ge

Neural radiance fields achieve unprecedented quality for novel view synthesis, but their volumetric formulation remains expensive, requiring a huge number of samples to render high-resolution images. Volumetric encodings are essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Merlin Nimier-David , Nicholas Sharp , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Sanja Fidler , Thomas Müller , Zan Gojcic

Surface meshes are widely used shape representations and capture finer geometry data than point clouds or volumetric grids, but are challenging to apply CNNs directly due to their non-Euclidean structure. We use parallel frames on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Yuqi Yang , Shilin Liu , Hao Pan , Yang Liu , Xin Tong

In computer graphics and vision, recovering easily modifiable scene appearance from image data is crucial for applications such as content creation. We introduce a novel method that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting with an implicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jakub Szymkowiak , Weronika Jakubowska , Dawid Malarz , Weronika Smolak-Dyżewska , Maciej Zięba , Przemyslaw Musialski , Wojtek Pałubicki , Przemysław Spurek

Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

Flows in networks (or graphs) play a significant role in numerous computer vision tasks. The scalar-valued edges in these graphs often lead to a loss of information and thereby to limitations in terms of expressiveness. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Viktoria Ehm , Daniel Cremers , Florian Bernard

Meshfree simulation methods are emerging as compelling alternatives to conventional mesh-based approaches, particularly in the fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and continuum mechanics. In this publication, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Paulami Banerjee , Mohan Padmanabha , Chaitanya Sanghavi , Isabel Michel , Simone Gramsch

Machine Learning surrogates for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers, have become a new important approach for accelerating physics simulations. However, we identify a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paul Garnier , Vincent Lannelongue , Elie Hachem

This paper proposes a novel paradigm for machine learning that moves beyond traditional parameter optimization. Unlike conventional approaches that search for optimal parameters within a fixed geometric space, our core idea is to treat the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Di Zhang

With advances in technology, there has been growing interest in developing effective mapping methods for 3-dimensional objects in recent years. Volumetric parameterization for 3D solid manifolds plays an important role in processing 3D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhiyuan Lyu , Qiguang Chen , Gary P. T. Choi , Lok Ming Lui

Point cloud reconstruction from raw point cloud has been an important topic in computer graphics for decades, especially due to its high demand in modeling and rendering applications. An important way to solve this problem is establishing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

Surface roughness in Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing varies across a part and is difficult to anticipate during process planning because it depends on both printing parameters and local surface inclination, which governs the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Engin Deniz Erkan , Elif Surer , Ulas Yaman

It plays a fundamental role to compactly represent the visual information towards the optimization of the ultimate utility in myriad visual data centered applications. With numerous approaches proposed to efficiently compress the texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shurun Wang , Shiqi Wang , Wenhan Yang , Xinfeng Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

We propose a new approach for controlling the characteristics of certain mesh faces during optimization of high-order curved meshes. The practical goals are tangential relaxation along initially aligned curved boundaries and internal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Z. Tomov

Large Language Models (LLMs) are driving advancements in artificial intelligence by increasing the scale of model parameters, which has significantly enhanced generalization ability and unlocked new capabilities in practice. However, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chenxing Wei , Yao Shu , Ying Tiffany He , Fei Richard Yu

We propose a neural parameterization of convex sets by learning sublinear (positively homogeneous and convex) functions. Our networks implicitly represent both the support and gauge functions of a convex body. We prove a universal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Eloi Martinet

Accurate surface roughness prediction is critical for ensuring high product quality, especially in areas like manufacturing and aerospace, where the smallest imperfections can compromise performance or safety. However, this is challenging…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Penghui Ruan , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Xiaoyun Liu , Ruoxin Wang , Chi Fai Cheung

In this paper we introduce paraglide, a visualization system designed for interactive exploration of parameter spaces of multi-variate simulation models. To get the right parameter configuration, model developers frequently have to go back…

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